Nineteen Houston ISD schools voluntarily applied for 14 slots in the New Education System for the 2024-25 school year and as it turned out, Houston ISD Superintendent Mike Miles couldn't say no to any of them.for next year on top of the 57 who volunteered for the first year on top of the original 28.
"If you don't count the speciality schools, that's half the district. So half the district will be NES schools," M<iles said. "Over the last couple of days I've been talking to the CFO, Chief Financial Officer, Jim Terry, I've been looking at the budget myself and we believe that we can find the funds to do all 19 schools. Part of that is when you have people willing to do the hard work. What we call 'the coalition of the willing, it's hard to say 'Never mind. Thanks for thinking really hard about it even though we warned them that would be that possibility.
While saying that he required all principals to get input from their staff and parents, he repeated that in the end it was the decision of the principal. And while he endorsed the process as proof that most people welcomed the decision to sign up, some campuses have reported that a) surveys did not reach many parents and b) in some cases the vote was against joining NES but the principal wanted to anyway.
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